In a Fast-Food Joint, Please Don't Be This Guy

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Blogger Charles Clymer makes a plea for decency by recounting in the Huffington Post a recent visit to McDonald's. A man sitting at a nearby table spilled his drink, let it pour onto the floor, and then simply moved to another table. "Don't clean it up," he told his wife. "That's what these people get paid to do." Clymer's response: He asked the manager for a mop and bucket, and cleaned up the mess himself as the couple watched.

The wife looked chagrined and apologized, but the husband said nothing and left the store. "These people" are often hard-working, low-wage workers who do not double as slaves, writes Clymer. "It doesn't matter your station in life: You do not get a pass on being considerate to others," he concludes. "Don't be that person who gets publicly embarrassed because you were a jerk." Click for the full post. (Read more minimum wage stories.)

I like Clymer's sense of style! You can learn manners - if your parents teach them, but you are born with class. The couple lacked both.

ThinkStraightAmerica

Sep 29, 2013 12:28 PM CDT

I see pigs throwing crap out of their car windows, more in the "bad" part of town. It's funny that actually some people prefer to live there, is it a racial thing??

Chatsworth

Sep 29, 2013 7:11 AM CDT

That reminds me of the time I used the mensroom in a Burger King, and the urinal overflowed and wouldn't stop running after I flushed.I told the girl at the counter,and she responded "That's not my job".I can see her point,but I had to tell someone about the issue, or not.What does that have to do with a guy spilling his soft drink on the floor? Not too much.